Cider Digest #0998

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Subject: Cider Digest #998, 16 October 2002 

Cider Digest #998                                         16 October 2002 

                 Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues 
                      Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor 

Contents: 
  Re: Cider Digest #997, 7 October 2002 ("Dave Burley") 
  Cider in the News ("Vintage Virginia Apples LLC") 

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Subject: Re: Cider Digest #997, 7 October 2002 
From: "Dave Burley" <Dave_Burley@charter.net> 
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:48:23 -0400 

Dear unknown corresondent, 

Please use your name when writing, much more polite. 

Sounds like you could have bottled your cider a little too soon.  Most likely 
the foaming you experienced was just CO2 saturated cider from the recent 
fermentation but it could still be active.  A stable reading on your 
hydrometer ( difficult to do with CO2 foam) over a week or so period may not 
be sufficient to believe the fermentation has stopped., especially since you 
had some flukey fermentation behaviors and you did not comment on your 
temperatures. 

Best thing to see if your fermentaion is truly finished is to measure the 
sugar content with a Clinitest kit ( not Clinistix) available from your 
pharmacy or a wine hobby shop or through the mail order houses. It should read 
zero at the end of the fermentation.  This is really the only way to tell for 
sure quickly 

Likely your cider will be petillant ( sparkly) which is nice.OR if you bottled 
it too soon you could end up with bottle bombs, so check it carefully over the 
next few weeks by popping the top of a bottle to see if it is stable pressure 
wise. You can reseal the bottle if you don't want to drink it.  Clinitest will 
confirm if you are finished fermenting. 

Dave Burley 

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Subject: Cider in the News 
From: "Vintage Virginia Apples LLC" <fruit@vintagevirginiaapples.com> 
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:01:14 -0400 

List subscribers will be interested in an article in the San Francisco 
Chronicle Sunday, October 13: " Poetry in a Bottle, Forget wine, Napa 
Valley's Murdo Laird is on a quest for the perfect apple cider."  The 
URL is 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/13/CM123751.DTL 

Charlotte Shelton 
Vintage Virginia Apples, LLC 
P. O. Box 210=20 
North Garden, Virginia 22959 
434.295.5382 

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